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Now showing — Early Masterpieces (1877 - 1883) · 5 works

  • As Tears Go By Film · 1980s

    Gang loyalty, bruised romance, and city-night momentum collide in an early Wong Kar-wai feature.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Videodrome Film · 1980s

    Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff films. Layers of d...

    SurveillanceAfter-hoursLonging
  • Maurice Books · 1970s

    Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond. It was written in 1913–1914, and revised in 1932 and 1959–1960.

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  • The Knick Television · 2010s

    The Knick is an American period medical drama television series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City during the early twentieth century. Am...

    PowerUrban isolationSurveillance
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a young adult coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted observing teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pitts...

    PowerMemoryMigration
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